I don't know about anyone else, but I am not one who boasts of her love of spiders. They are icky, occasionally hard to deal with, and I try to avoid them. Which is odd, because I find myself saying the exact same thing about citations.
However, after putting myself in the position of being a plagiarized author, I realized that the only things I despised more than spiders were flies, especially of the slimy, plagiarizing variety.
So, just like spiders (who eat real flies for breakfast), citations allow us to capture the flies of plagiarizing in our web of in-text and footnote citations and prevent them from annoying us.
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